Today’s episode shares the essential coaching skills for managers that can help you create better and healthier workplace environments.

These game changing moves will help your coaching business.

For this podcast episode, I tapped graduates of the Courageous Living Coach Certification for their favorite coaching exercises for clients.

As a coach, supporting clients who are in the messy middle of change is a delicate task. Here's how you do it.

Today on the podcast? We’re talking about the biggest mistakes coaches make that hold them back from feeling fulfilled in their coaching businesses. These mistakes aren’t intentional (of course) but it’s through becoming aware of these mistakes that coaches can course-correct and start feeling less stressed and more aligned, in their work.

Feeling overwhelmed by all the moving parts of your coaching business is pretty common for new and emerging coaches! In this podcast episode, I’m walking you through a process for setting annual goals for your coaching business, and setting quarterly goals that feed those larger annual goals.

Have you always wanted to write a self-help book? If you’re a coach, what will you need to keep in mind in order to make that happen? Today I’m talking about my experience of being a life coach and author (my book, The Courage Habit, came out in 2018 and was named a “top book on habits” by BookRiot), and I’m laying out some of the essentials that you’ll need in order to write and publish your own book.

Everything is a Story, and our clients can shape their lives based on the internal Stories and narratives they hold--and choose to change. Today’s episode looks at the line between getting too reductive with coaching (“Just change your story and you change your life, that’s all!”) and a more nuanced look at identifying client stories and narratives.

Today I talk with Coach Valerie Tookes about the craft of health and wellness coaching. Specifically, we get into how we can help our clients break free from the diet industry paradigm, and choose health and wellness goals that are in alignment with who they truly are.

If you’re a coach who is trying to get your business up and going while also managing the rest of your life (perhaps even still working a salaried job), managing your schedule is going to need some attention. In this podcast episode, I’m sharing how I approached managing my schedule when I was a new/beginning coach, and how you can implement some of those strategies, too.

What do coaching and intersectionality have to do with one another? A lot--because our clients are not just individuals showing up to the coaching session. Every client brings with them a host of intersections and ways that they interact with the wider world. As life coaches, we need to do our own work to recognize intersectional opportunities, so that we can hold space for our diverse clientele without bias or assumptions. This episode on coaching and intersectionality offers suggestions for how coaches can do this work, to better support their clients.

Here’s what I’m hearing about coaching during COVID : people either feel totally overwhelmed about taking on clients, or, people feel totally overwhelmed because they’ve got SO many clients who are in need of coaching. LinkedIn recently named Coaching one of the top jobs people are pivoting to during the pandemic...so here’s how I suggest you approach coaching during COVID, to lessen the overwhelm.

Your clients are going to navigate big life transitions--some desired, others not so much--and the stress and overwhelm of that can throw them off. In today’s episode, I’m asking you (the coach/listener) to think about your own big life transitions and put yourself in the client’s shoes. How are you navigating big life transitions? What tools can you apply to the process of learning and growing from those transitions, that are also useful for clients?

As coaches, we know that we need to be clear about how we can help clients through their problems--so how do we practice authenticity with clients about the fact that we, too, are growing and evolving human beings? This episode discusses some mindset shifts that help you to show up with full authenticity with clients, especially in online spaces.

The Courageous Living Coach Certification is now accredited with the International Coaching Federation, or ICF. In today’s podcast episode, we’re sharing we decided to get our program ICF Accredited and how that will impact the program, moving forward.

Today’s Craft of Coaching episode is sharing the best ways to learn about marketing, especially for new and emerging coaches who know that they’re short on time or money. I’ll be breaking down the essential things to focus on, and what you don’t need to focus on (yet).

What’s the thing that will make or break your success in life, your coaching business, and anywhere else? The power of commitment. In today’s episode, I’m asking you to take a look at where you can leverage the power of commitment to see even greater results in your life. Those of you who have hesitated to fully go all-in on your coaching business? This is definitely an episode to listen to.

Working on your business is different than working in your business. This podcast episode is not a breakdown of marketing strategies; rather, it’s a way of looking at how you spend time on the big picture growth of your business so that you don’t solely focus on day-to-day tasks.

A huge impediment to building your coaching business is getting comfortable showing up online. If you fear criticisms of how you look, your message being misunderstood, or that you’ll hear nothing but crickets, grab a pen and paper and get ready to start deconstructing fear and building confidence for showing up online.

When coaches complete their life coach training, they often think about how they are going to coach other people--their clients. But what about self-coaching and working on yourself? Self-coaching is a process of using coaching tools in your own personal life to move your life forward. The more self-coaching you undertake, the better you’ll be able to bust through your own limitations and also help your clients. In today’s episode of the Craft of Coaching podcast, I’m sharing how you can use self-coaching tools in your personal life.